wwmhf
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How are you processing the music? Is it flac or larger? Mp3 does not sound all that great on a high end system!
Have you tried foobar, jriver or hqplayer for dynamic up sampling to dsd128?
Better still, if your PC is a dedicated music player have you looked at daphile - poor mans jplay?
Are you interconnecting cables short and of middle to high quality?
If you want more then explore some of the mods - no transformer bolts, twisted mains etc ...
Thanks for your suggestions.
My music are mostly my CD copied to a hardrive in wav format. I rarely listen to MP3.
I was quite interested in upsampling some time ago. I used the SoX upsampler in foobar for a while and I tried the upsampler in jriver briefly. Before this year, only one of my DACs was capable up to 192. So I was not very much impressed by upsampling in my very limited explorations. Your suggestions and my new toys motivate me to explore more. That hqplayer seems to be an attractive starter.
The daphile program is interesting to me because I have been using a Squeezebox Touch for years. I need more time to explore it.
My interconnecting cables are mostly made by myself and I am confident they can stand against good cables in the market. USB cable is a different story. I do not know how to make good ones yet so I just use seemly decent ones.
I will explore mods on X20 later. Looking back, I modded every single dac I used (AUDIO ALCHEMY DDEs, MSB Link DAC I, II, III, Ack! Dack! 1.2, 2.0 ...), so I am sure I will try something to mod X20 if I decide to keep it.